THE N W YORKER victories, I)uke and St. Peter's were scheduled to play the first ga111e of the C tournalnent's quarter-final round, fnur nights later. It pro111ised to be a c]assic confrontation between two often in- con1 pa tiblc basketball virtues, strength and speed. I)uke's starting players had an average height advantage of two inches, and they were beefier by a good ten pounds a lnan, but the question W.:lS whethel they could stand the pace set by St. Peter's. rrhe odds-111.:1kers said ,es, and installed Duke as a 1 00- point favorite. rrhen St. Peter's broke fro111 the starting buz7er like a five- 111an relay tea111 and-to the delight of a capacity crowd of 19,500-raced to a shockingly easy victory, 1 00-71. r[he ga111e was essentially over in the first fi ve 111 in utes. Of the forty field goals that St. Peter's scored, lnore than half CdIne on driving lay-ups off the fast break-a relnarkahle tribute to the Peacocks' skill in eÀecuting one of bas- kctball's lnost e'\.citing and difficult In.1- ncuvers. rrhe 111an directing 111 an)' of the fast breaks-after E1nardo \Vebster or the c.:lptain, Pcte O'I)ea, had cleared the ball off the defensivf boards-was H.:l1TY Laurie, an un- flappable twen t) -three-year-old senior fro111 Jelse) City. Like ',Vebster, 1.1<:11l- rie had st.:lrred clt Lincoln High School, held gone away to e1 "basketbed1 col- lege" (Len 01.:1 of Chice1go), and then held C0111e henne to .:1 school where, as he eÀplained after the gal11C' that nigh t, ") ou can play basketbal1 and get e1 good education, too." Froln his Í1npassivr de- nlCe1nor on the court, it was ha rd to llnagine that Laurie had once been, h) his own adlnission, a "wild kid," who was thrown off his high-school teel111 by the cOdch for insubordination. "',Vhen I got out of high school, I was èighteen.. and aU I could think about was basket- ball," he s.1id. ".i\.ftel I got to Loyola, I began to change. J;'or thc first few 111onths, I We1S real lonely-I re111C111- ber I couldn't we1it for Christn1e1s-but I had c1 lot of titne to think .111(1 1 re- ali7ed th.:1t life wasn't just one big ball ga111e." [n the lniddle of his sopholnore ) ear, Laurie dropped out of Lo) 01.1 and applied for d tr.:l11sfer to St. PLter's.. even though it 111eant starting his soph- 01110re year over .:lgain the following fan and sittIng out one entire baskct- ban season. He is now 111elrried-to a for111er cheerlec1der at Lincoln High School-and is the father of ï two- and-a-ha)f-year-old son. His 111ajor is sociology, and he plans to continue his tudies in graduelte school .:uld then "get involved in soci.ll work in J erse) C " t , " 1 v. After each galne at the Garden, ,- IMPORtf b nOM BEiE] t ^ ^ " f n f- tt __lOt , t NDONDISTIL DRYCiJN,,- .g. $'" ".v 'I( bt"S'K"'>t+ ) io- . . ! . . ! First name for the martini. " ' 'f' <<- J .tI -" .. k; 4t cijJ <tW-= \ j " O RArtÐ (:QRPQ'f!;ftT10:tt ..J:.t:. "--, " _* .4It.i!O ..- _.t 131 -- -- @ FROM ENGLAND BY KOBRAND NY - 94 PROOF - TRIPLE DISTillED -100% GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS